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...private dealers are as well housed as Salz. Newcomer Ben Heller, 44, a textile tycoon and a well-known collector in his own right, makes do with a nine-room co-op apartment on Manhattan's Central Park West. Heller is also a friend of artists. He was an early patron of Pollock, Newman, and Kline, has sold many of the paintings thus acquired to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-keeping a few favorites for himself. Today he buys mostly primitive, classical and Oriental objects. "I buy as a collector, basically because it is beautiful...
...outlet, the Harlem Stationery Co., sold 52,000,000 glassine bags in 1969 alone, accounting for nearly 20% of the store's $500,000 sales. A Harlem drugstore, the Co-Op Pharmacy, peddled 47 million bags over a two-year period for an estimated $ 100,000 profit. There are, of course, other users of the envelopes, such as watch repairmen and stamp collectors, but the committee concluded that most bags sold in Harlem were used to package heroin...
...Co-Op Pharmacy also sold 40,000 ounces of quinine, worth $60,000, in the same two-year period. Estimated revenues from the sales were between $1,000,000 and $1,400,000. The committee was told that regular sales of quinine and the other heroin additives would only total a few hundred thousand dollars a year for all of New York City...
...Viet Nam, Jon gets right into the swing of things by buying a 16-mm. camera and becoming the protege of a pudgy master pornographer. He sets up his tripod in his tenement apartment and plays a Peeping Tom game of Rear Window with the tenants of the massive co-op across the way. He even winds up marrying one of them (Jennifer Salt). By this time his film career has gone sour, his debut in radical theater has been a bust, and his new calling as "an urban guerrilla" seems threatened by the balm of matrimony and impending fatherhood...
...co-op's representative at Harvard is Lester Salamon, teaching fellow in Government. Salamon said yesterday that contributions could be mailed to Freedom Farms Co-Op, c/o Quincy House office...